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Catering Creatively: Techniques and Trends in Buffet Service
Welcome to the world of "Catering Creatively”. This book takes you on a culinary journey through the art of buffet catering, designed to entice, inspire, and prepare you for any event, with lessons gleaned from an over 20-year career in the industry having started in 2002.
Cuisine, at its core, reflects culture (Civitello, 2011, Capatti and Montanari, 2003). Food writer M.F.K. Fisher famously said, "First we eat, then we do everything else." Indeed, our earliest cultural experiences often revolve around food. Catering, in this light, is not merely about feeding people. It is about creating shared experiences that celebrate the diversity of our culinary traditions something we have learned vividly over the thousands of events we have been involved over the years.
"Catering Creatively” gathers a world of flavours, blending global gourmet with local bounty, curating menus that invite guests on a culinary journey around the world while highlighting the ingredients and food traditions of many places; from South America through to the Mediterranean and anything in between.
Furthermore, diversity in buffet event catering extends beyond regions and geography. Today's buffet must consider diverse dietary needs, including vegan, gluten-free, and other special diet guests (Ruel, 2003, Lin et al., 2022, Oktadiana et al., 2020). As award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson implores us to bring a soul to our work such as by crafting buffets that cater to a range of dietary requirements, we are merely infusing a feast with soul, transforming it from a standard food service into an inclusive culinary experience (Gaupp et al., 2021).
Cuisine, at its core, reflects culture (Civitello, 2011, Capatti and Montanari, 2003). Food writer M.F.K. Fisher famously said, "First we eat, then we do everything else." Indeed, our earliest cultural experiences often revolve around food. Catering, in this light, is not merely about feeding people. It is about creating shared experiences that celebrate the diversity of our culinary traditions something we have learned vividly over the thousands of events we have been involved over the years.
"Catering Creatively” gathers a world of flavours, blending global gourmet with local bounty, curating menus that invite guests on a culinary journey around the world while highlighting the ingredients and food traditions of many places; from South America through to the Mediterranean and anything in between.
Furthermore, diversity in buffet event catering extends beyond regions and geography. Today's buffet must consider diverse dietary needs, including vegan, gluten-free, and other special diet guests (Ruel, 2003, Lin et al., 2022, Oktadiana et al., 2020). As award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson implores us to bring a soul to our work such as by crafting buffets that cater to a range of dietary requirements, we are merely infusing a feast with soul, transforming it from a standard food service into an inclusive culinary experience (Gaupp et al., 2021).
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Published January 11, 2024
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Emma Greenfield
62 books17 followersEmma Greenfield lives with a wild imagination in the backwoods of eastern Arizona. A love of reading naturally led to her love of writing. Her goals when writing romance is to bring the characters to life so that the reader feels that they are right there in the story. She lives with Boots and Ellie, her two kittens and lives a green lifestyle off the grid.
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